Integrating child health services into malaria control services of village malaria workers in remote Cambodia: Service utilization and knowledge of malaria management of caregivers

Malaria Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hasegawa, Aya ^a   Yasuoka, Junko ^a   Ly, Po ^b   Nguon, Chea ^b   Jimba, Masamine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b National Centre for Parasitology Entomology and Malaria Control   (Cambodia)

Author keywords

Cambodia; Child health; Communicable diseases; Community health worker; Health service utilization; Malaria; Quality of service

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAMBODIA; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HEALTH; READING; SCALE UP; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAMBODIA; CAREGIVERS; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84882545260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-12-292     Document Type: Article

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